By Susan Banks : Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Good introduction to the gardens

February 16th 1990 was a fateful day for Tim Smit. That was the day he and John Willis first explored the decades of tangled overgrowth and melancholic ruins that was then Heligan Gardens. As he says in his enthralling book "In Retrospect it was a day that was to change our lives". Brief description of the gardens and links.